The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday said defying the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) did not make the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) a “better public broadcaster”. The SABC rejected Icasa’s recommendation on Monday that it lift its unilateral ban on showing footage of violent protests. Reacting to[…]
Communications regulator Icasa has ordered the SABC to withdraw its resolution to not air violent public protests on television news. SABC chairman Professor Mbulaheni Maguvhe was directed to confirm in writing within seven calendar days that Icasa’s order has been complied with. Failure to do so could result in the[…]
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe claims the ANC has also been a victim of censorship at the SABC. “We are saying the SABC sometimes censors us as the ANC and nobody speaks. It doesn’t report on our activities and yet nobody comments. Censorship is a bad thing generally,” Mantashe told[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton If the rot is not stopped, the SABC is well on its way to becoming a Broederbond-style puppet it was before 1994. THE censorious, high-handed, Stalin-esque edifice that currently passes for our national broadcaster today is a cause for grave concern. Admittedly, the SABC has been[…]
A clarion call to stand up against censorship as a means of protecting the South African democracy was made on Friday when journalists, communication officers, civil society, politicians, and members of the public braced the Cape Town cold and rain, standing in solidarity with suspended journalists and against muzzling of[…]
Journalists have started picketing outside the SABC’s offices in Cape Town, in solidarity with the public broadcaster’s staff. The South African National Editors’ Forum will join Friday’s planned pickets outside the SABC’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Sanef urged all journalists and citizens who support media freedom to attend[…]
In what has been described as Black Friday, throngs of media workers were expected to picket outside the SABC offices in Joburg and Cape Town on Friday morning in solidarity with journalists suspended for standing against a censorship policy that has been likened to apartheid-era tendencies. This as journalists suspended[…]
SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng wonders whether privately-owned media has an agenda against the public broadcaster. He did not believe the SABC was censoring content and it reported the news as it was, he told journalists at its Auckland Park head office on Tuesday. He was happy people in the SABC[…]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Tuesday that the African National Congress (ANC) believes Jimi Matthews has allowed himself to be “used by those who…want to undermine the integrity of the public broadcaster part”. The ruling party’s Zizi Kodwa attacked Matthews for playing the “victim game” and described[…]
The man responsible for reuniting missing former SABC chief executive Solly Mokoetle with his family had no idea who he was when he found him dazed and confused outside a local school at the weekend. “But it is my culture to help a person, no matter who he is,” Tshidiso[…]
WhatsApp us 